When the Tide Remembers: Yorkseed, Community, and the Vedic Law of Rising in Crisis

Featuring excerpts from “Hunger of Empires” by Sasha Tanoushka

There are nights that feel less like events and more like turning points.

The launch of Yorkseed Victoria was one of those nights - small in size but seismic in energy. Not because of the microphones, or the lighting, or the schedule. But because of what people carried into the room:

Losses they’ve survived.

Systems they’ve outgrown.

Futures they’re no longer willing to negotiate with.

Yorkseed Victoria is not about networking; it’s about remembering - remembering what humans once knew before empires, industries, and institutions convinced us that isolation was safety and hoarding was success.

That memory is what my poem, Hunger of Empires, tried to call forward.

Dr. Alison Thompson, Founder of Thirdwave Volunteers & Chaplain to the UN- keynote speaker at Yorkseed Victoria launch

🌊Water Remembers What Empires Forget

From the opening lines:

“We begin in water - the womb of the world… the one place no one could hoard…”

the room was reminded that nature began in abundance, not scarcity. Scarcity was constructed. Starvation was engineered. Wealth inequality didn’t “happen”; it was designed.

The poem wasn’t meant to be a comfort.

It was meant to be a mirror.

“Malnutrition is not a mystery.

It’s a map…

It points directly to the boardrooms

where men count profits in the time it takes

a child to faint.”

Yorkseed Victoria is emerging precisely because those systems are no longer theoretical. They’re lived reality - here, now, in Victoria, in housing crises, in food insecurity, in communities stretched thin while money flows upward instead of outward.

And yet…

the poem does not end in despair.

It ends in tide.

🔱The Vedic Law of Crisis → Clarity → Courage

The teaching on Kartikeya  - holds a truth that sits beside Hunger of Empires like an ally, not a contradiction.

According to the Skanda Purana:

Beings of great clarity are not born out of comfort. They are born out of crisis.

Not out of romance.

Not out of ease.

Out of necessity.

That teaching is not about religion - it’s about pattern. Kartikeya rides the peacock not because of beauty, but because:

The peacock represents ego - and he mastered it. Most people are led by it.

And his spear?

Not for killing demons outside, but for piercing through the demons rooted in hesitation, avoidance, fear, and delay.

This is present in my poem:

“The empire that fattens on greed

will one day drown

in the flood of the people

it left starving.”

Both teachings- one Vedic, one poetic - insist that when systems fail, consciousness rises.

When the world becomes unlivable, humans evolve. When old power collapses, new clarity is born.

🔥Yorkseed Victoria Was Born in That Same Crisis

The launch wasn’t a party. It was a pulse.

It gathered founders, healers, filmmakers, activists, musicians, and community-builders who each carry their own version of the Vedic truth:

We are no longer negotiating with fear. I’ll pop

We are no longer waiting for fairness.

We are no longer outsourcing our futures to systems that weren’t built for us.

As Hunger of Empires says:

“We feel the hunger in the air:

the hunger for fairness,

for flattening the pyramid…”

Yorkseed Victoria is that hunger in structure - a network, a hub, a community-first platform reclaiming something ancient:

shared power, shared ownership, shared voice.

🌱Where the Poem Meets the Movement

When I performed Hunger of Empires, the room didn’t just hear a poem -it recognized its own story.

Founders who have lost homes.

Artists who’ve rebuilt lives from ashes.

Immigrants balancing ten identities.

Professionals burned by corporate extraction.

Leaders who’ve seen institutions collapse under their own excess.

This line could have been the night’s thesis:

“We rise when hoarding dies

and community begins.”

Yorkseed isn’t just launching a hub.

It’s launching a new tide.

A tide aligned with the oldest principle in both the poem and the Vedic teaching:

You can’t stop a rising people.

And you can’t drown what remembers how to flow.

🌊🔥Closing

The Hunger of Empires ends with this:

“Share or starve.

Flow or fall.

Rise together

or sink alone.”

And that is exactly the philosophy Yorkseed Victoria placed on the table the other evening :

Not capitalism’s hunger.

Not empire logic.

Not ego’s peacock strut.

But community as currency.

Collaboration as clarity.

The courage that only appears when excuses die.

The night was not a launch…..it was a signal.

A rising.

A remembering.

A new tide beginning to move.

Sasha Tanoushka BCH I Yorkseed Victoria Hub Director I Neuroacoustics Coach I HypnoChic ™️